Everyone wears masks.
Not just today, but every day.
We hide our true feelings. We tamp down our preferences. We sequester our opinions. We shunt aside who we really are.
We do it to be accepted. We do it to be admired. We do it to be rewarded. We do it to fit in.
We do it to be loved.
I realized I loved my husband (long before I married him) when I realized I wasn't pretending to be someone I wasn't and he loved me anyway.
I realized that I, as a person, as an individual, as someone different and unique and quirky, was worthy of affection and caring.
I need to be the lead role in my life. I want to take off the mask. I want to show who I really am. Revealing my thoughts and speaking my mind. There are only a few situations or people that I do that with now, I want that in ever facet of my life.
I need to Perform a striptease of my soul.
I think everybody is just like me. Maybe not exactly. Not precisely. But most of us have the same values, the same dreams (but with different specifics, of course), the same fears. We want health. We want security. We want companionship (and also want independence and sometimes some solitude). We want love. We want freedom. We want to be who and what we are.
Happy Halloween - even though I'm not participating this year!
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